The point of nik is not to use someone else's work without permission or proper attribution. Make sure you read the license of the package you're starting with (the same license is applied to your package by default). And give proper credit to the original author.

The primary motivation of nik is to make it easy to start a new project with some existing scaffolding. Think of it as Yeoman-extra-light or npm init on steroids. The idea is that people will host templates or project scaffolding on on npmjs.org or GitHub, and you can use nik to bootstrap your project.

Please submit an issue if you encounter any trouble. Contributions or suggestions for improvements welcome!